Consequently, substantial renovation funded by the New Deal Public Works Administration produced a new shiny largely stainless steel kitchen.

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"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration, " says John Chafee, chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.

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During Mr. Fox's administration, for instance, a handful of protesters with machetes successfully derailed the government's biggest public works project, a new Mexico City airport.

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